Four Revenge Tragedies The Spanish Tragedy; the Revenger's Tragedy; the Revenge of Bussy d'Ambois; and the Atheist's Tragedy

Name: Four Revenge Tragedies The Spanish Tragedy; the Revenger's Tragedy; the Revenge of Bussy d'Ambois; and the Atheist's Tragedy
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ISBN: 9780192838780

ISBN-10: 0192838784

ISBN-13: 9780192838780

Edition: 1998

Authors: Katharine Eisaman Maus

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The Revenge Tragedy flourished in Britain in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy, published anonymously and ascribed first to Cyril Tourneur and then to Thomas Middleton. George Chapman's The Revenge of Bussy d'Ambois and Tourneur's The Atheist's Tragedy appeared soon after. In different ways each of these four plays reveals the problems of the revenge genre, often by exploiting its conventions in unexpected directions. All deal with fundamental moral questions about the meaning of justice and the lengths to which victimized individuals may go to obtain it, while registering the strains of life in a rigid but increasingly fragile social…

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List price: $12.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/23/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 5.08" wide x 7.72" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Introduction


Note on the Texts


Select Bibliography


Chronology


The Spanish Tragedy


The Revenger's Tragedy


The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois


The Atheist's Tragedy


Explanatory Notes


Glossary